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...convenient and long-standing tradition in Mexico to blame its problems on the U.S.--and one that's now finding agreement from surprising quarters. "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade," declared U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton en route to Mexico on March 25. "Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border ... causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians." Mexico has seen more than 7,000 drug-related killings since early 2008, and the violence now threatening to spill north hasn't escaped attention. Late last year, somewhat hyperbolically...
...York Rockefeller, Reconsidered Governor David Paterson reached an agreement with legislators to scale down the state's Rockefeller drug laws, some of the earliest statutes in the nation to lay out mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. Critics and activists hailed the pact, arguing that mandatory minimums contribute to prison overcrowding and recidivism and incarcerate addicts who should instead receive treatment. The original laws, which were a model for much of the legislation passed at the height of America's War on Drugs in the 1980s, mandated minimum sentences as long as 15 years for certain drug offenses--the same...
...Maile Takahashi, senior community planner for the Allston Development Group, presented a synopsis of Harvard’s first annual report on the Allston Science Complex Cooperation Agreement signed one year ago. The agreement required the University to provide $25 million worth of neighborhood benefits in order to proceed with construction...
...Today, 189 countries are party to the agreement, of which five are allowed to maintain nuclear weapons. The four states that do not abide by the NPT—India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan—have all developed, or are suspected of developing nuclear weapons capabilities of some sort. The Obama administration should work with all four of these nations to bring them back into the international fold (the U.S.-India bilateral accord of 2006 is a good starting point), and hopefully persuade them to give up their nuclear armaments...
...meantime, the U.N. Security Council - at the behest of the U.S. and its key allies in East Asia, Japan and South Korea - convened yesterday to consider a response to the launch. But the meeting broke up late Sunday night with no agreement on anything, and that speaks volumes about the gap that now exists between China and Russia on one side (both permanent members of the Security Council) and the U.S., South Korea and Japan on the other. (Those nations, plus North Korea, comprise the six-party talks.) (Read about what North Korea could look like after...